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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.

I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.

I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.

Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.

Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.

-SoulRiser

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If you thought Hillary Clinton was any better, she's gone to great lengths to cover up her racism, sexism, homophobia, murders disguised as accidents, and corruption. Hillary Clinton would have been just as terrible as Donald Trump.

(02-02-2017 05:50 PM)ComradeDaryl Wrote: If you thought Hillary Clinton was any better, she's gone to great lengths to cover up her racism, sexism, homophobia, murders disguised as accidents, and corruption. Hillary Clinton would have been just as terrible as Donald Trump.

this is not math or logic, it is argument. Proof does not exist in this subject matter.

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well, all I know is that she physically moved to NewYork to be closer to her wall street buddies, so probably we would have gotten the same kind of wall street sleaze.

I don't think she would be brazenly doing half the shit Trump is already trying to pull.

Bernie 2020? or maybe even Franken 2020?

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Purity is to Believe only that which deserves it.Wisdom is to follow only the Opinion which makes the best use of evidence.Excellence is to be mindful of all these things in Living.Follow me on Twitter!

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(01-21-2017 05:02 PM)thewake Wrote: I don't get why people are so upset over Trump being president.

I also don't get why anyone is surprised that Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton were both so popular in the first place.

As terrible as both Barack Obama and Donald Trump (along with any American president, British prime minister, Chinese president, French president, Saudi Arabian king, etc) are, the hysteria against Russia is just as terrible. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates are doing much worse things than Russia could ever do!

(01-25-2017 11:02 AM)thewake Wrote:

(11-22-2016 03:41 PM)ComradeDaryl Wrote: The U.S. is not, and never was a democracy of any kind in the first place. It was oligarchy/plutocracy from day one. The American founding fathers were almost all very rich and almost all of them were racist and owned slaves.

Take a look at the electoral college for example. It's a very undemocratic institution to begin with. I personally admire a direct democracy.